The Hindu Business Line : Campaign against tobacco usage

Telugu film actor Manchu Vishnu has joined the campaign against smoking by attending a ‘no tobacco usage’ programme taken up by doctors at the Apollo Cancer Institute here. Addressing a gathering on Friday, Dr Vijay Anand Reddy, Director of the institute, said tobacco-induced cancers constituted 25 per cent of all the newly detected cancers. “About 47 per cent of the population above the age of 15 years are addicted to tobacco in India,” he said. St ating that oral cancers constituted 10 per cent of total cancers in the world, he said the incidence was still higher in India with 17 cases for one lakh population against 11 in the US and two in Japan.

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